"In recent years China has overtaken the United States as the world's leading producer and consumer of energy. Since 2009 China's energy requirements have grown exponentially, particularly for coal and electricity, sparking international and national debates on the sustainability of growth and...

"This essential reader brings together a collection of influential contributions on China's economic development, published by Palgrave on behalf of Compartive Economic Studies. Each chapter has been carefully selected for the contribution it has made to furthering the understanding of China's...

The Asian century is dawning. The world's economic center is shifting from West to East, reshaping geopolitics. While not all Asian countries are successfully moving from industrialization to digitalization, in Southeast Asia, China, India and elsewhere, new technologies including the widespread...

"India is one of the fastest growing countries in the world but high economic growth has been accompanied by social stratification and widening economic disparity between states. This study provides a comprehensive picture of uneven growth and development within regions in India. Inclusive...

In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann make a simple, central claim, developed with rigorous theoretical and empirical support: knowledge is the key to a country’s development. Of course, every country acknowledges the importance of developing human capital, but Hanushek and Woessmann...

We employ a novel approach for analyzing the effects of relative consumption and relative wealth preferences on both the decentralized and the socially optimal economic growth rates. In the pertinent literature these effects are usually assessed by examining the dependence of the growth rates on...